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Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans to Lead Pop Culture Collaborative

Release Date:

03/15/2017

The Nathan Cummings Foundation is so pleased to announce the new leadership team for the Pop Culture Collaborative, which includes 2016-2017 NCF Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans as Executive Director.

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Arts

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Aetna Joins Corporate Effort to Save Hartford Financial and Psychological Slump

Release Date:

03/15/2017

Connecticut may be the wealthiest state in the nation, but you wouldn't know that by visiting its capital, Hartford. Aetna, The Hartford, and Travelers—announced that they would come to the city’s aid with a $50 million collective commitment.

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Community Development

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EAC Network Teams Up with Bank of America, Long Island Community Foundation for “Fresh from the Garden” Senior Initiative

Release Date:

03/15/2017

Seniors who live in communities with few or no grocery stores around are at risk for malnutrition and are more likely to suffer from preventable chronic diseases and poor health conditions.

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Food Systems

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Bank of America [Corporate]

Long Island Community Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz Announces Increase of 2017 Program Grants Budget

Release Date:

03/15/2017

Recognizing the challenges to many of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s program priorities presented by the current political climate, the board of trustees has approved an increase in the Fund’s grants budget by nearly 12 percent for 2017, Fund...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

This Guy Has Plans to Make Your Foundation More Accountable

Release Date:

03/15/2017

As he prepares for the release of his new book “The Givers: Wealth Power and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age,” David Callahan will stand before PNY members to defend his approach and ideas about the future of philanthropy in America. Within our...

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Lessons Learned from a Journey to Impact Investing

Release Date:

03/13/2017

Phillip Henderson, president of the Surdna Foundation, writes about a nine-month learning process that led to the Surdna board unanimously voting to commit approximately 10 percent of its endowment — $100 million — toward impact investing.

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Insights

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Surdna Foundation

Supported by Doris Duke, Conservation Group Maps Land Protection Strategy in Three States

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03/13/2017

A conservation group has created maps identifying key landscapes in the Pacific Northwest most likely to sustain native species amid climate change, and is distributing money to protect private lands through use-limiting easements or outright...

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Member News

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation Names Rosanna Aybar as Vice President, Finance And Administration

Release Date:

03/13/2017

Ms. Aybar will oversee the external managers of the Foundation’s endowment. She will also have responsibility for the Foundation’s budget, accounting, audit, human resources, and information technology systems, as well as management of the...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Supports SDG Philanthropy Platform

Release Date:

03/13/2017

Foundations will contribute at least $364 billion to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to the Foundation Center. But philanthropy alone cannot foot the $3.5 trillion bill.